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| Criterion |  Growth Hooked Model |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Growth Pirate Metrics AARRR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The Hooked Model helps clarify engagement loops, user behavior, and experiments. It makes repeat behavior measurable and captures the result as a hooked loop, trigger map, and reward design. | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. | For products with complex usage paths, overall growth alone is too coarse to reveal bottlenecks. Pirate Metrics breaks the relationship with the product into consecutive stages and shows where the funnel actually leaks. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Multiple workshops over several weeks | 2-4 h | 30-60 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-12 | 2-6 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Hooked loop, Trigger map, Reward design, Ethics check | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | AARRR funnel, Metric baseline, Experiment backlog |
Tagsno overlap | GrowthBehaviorRetention | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | GrowthMetricsExperiments |